What is volunteering?
A volunteer is a person that dedicates their time, work, and talent, spontaneously and with no pay, to collective interest causes.
Volunteering means joining efforts to benefit all.
It is solidarity and aiding those in need, but it also means culture, sports, entertainment, and even defending nature and the environment.
It is a direct action to help, but also to demand.
The importance of each volunteer’s work
In neighborhoods, in self-help groups, in clubs, in cultural and sport associations, in social institutions, in companies, in churches and other religious institutions, a huge amount of people help each other and help those in a more difficult situation, even if they do not call themselves volunteers.
The volunteers are responding to a basic human impulse: the wish to help, to collaborate, to share joys, to relief suffering, to improve the quality of life in common.
Solidarity, altruism, and responsibility are profoundly humane feelings and are also civic virtues.
When concerning ourselves with the situation of others, when engaging in collective interest causes, we establish links of solidarity and mutual trust that protect us all in moments of crisis, that make society more united, and makes each of us into a better human being.
Because of the benefits to the volunteer himself, to the people the volunteer relates with, to society, the volunteer deserves to be valued, supported, publicized, and strengthened.
